Azoth misc

Jason Ingram · 14 Feb 2002, 09:28 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: Jason Ingram <j_ingram at mac.com>
Subject: Re: (urth): Azoth misc
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:28:26 -0800
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Alga,

Those titles sound interesting.  I've been researching related topics=20
(which are more pertinent to John Crowley, but still relevant to =20
Wolfe), and fictional accounts should help to sustain interest.

One more tangent:

The Abyss also can refer to a barrier between lower and higher Sefiroth,=20
around a 'secret sefira' called Daleth.  Serious Kabbalist scholars such=20
as Gershom Scholem tend to denigrate the vision of the Kabbalah=20
developed within Western magical traditions, the source of that use of=20
"the abyss."  However, it might relate to Yourcenar's approach.

Sepia

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 08:30 AM, Alice K. Turner wrote:

> Thank you for this--it is particularly interesting to me as I have just
> finished reading THE ABYSS, by Margaret Yourcenar, an account of a=20
> fictional
> 16th c. intellectual/astrologer/philosopher named Zeno, who is clearly=20
> based
> on Paracelsus. I had mildly wondered why the book had that title--it=20
> might
> have been explained somewhere but if so it went right by me. I have also
> recently read THE CHYMICAL WEDDING, by Lindsay Clarke. which is very=20
> much up
> the same path (though a contemporary novel). so a post like this is a=20
> real
> pleasure.
>
> -alga

--=20

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